Elf Love Confessions - Ch. 5 - The Love of Landmine Elves Who Live For Hundreds of Years is Heavy

[MangaDex]

 

[feha]

menhera elf? cute! Though would have been better without the piercings, almost felt more punk [than menhera] because of them [and their quantity].

 

[nicolas22g]

A promise is a promise

 

[Jatopian]

Not sure I understand the dialogue in this one. It's hard to keep saying you love her if you're dead.

 

[Eighty-six]

Not sure I understand the dialogue in this one. It's hard to keep saying you love her if you're dead.

i will continue to say it in my afterlife

 

[Madologist]

I think this one might actually go with the "have him have a son with another woman and then marry the son" plan...

 

[cjellis1227]

This actually made me think of a question. Would it be selfish of a human to fall in love and be with an elf? Because for the human, they can love and be with the elf for their entire life. The elf however, assuming they also fall in love with the human, would have to watch the one they love grow old and die and then continue to live on without them for however long they live. It would be easy for the human because they’d never really have to experience that pain assuming the elf doesn’t get killed or die some other way.

 

[Doopington]

Not sure I understand the dialogue in this one. It's hard to keep saying you love her if you're dead.

NOW I think I get what happened after looking at the Twitter raw, and why it ended up this way. The team translated the Japanese properly (IMO), but due to a foible of Japanese sentence structure it doesn't format directly as otherwise would be preferred. The clauses need to be broken and mixed around a bit for English (even if they make sense in Japanese).

tl;dr Translating the Japanese and carrying over the sentence structure accidentally adds an implied meaning in English that shouldn't be technically conveyed, i.e. "even after you're dead say you'll love me, etc."

An example (not to step on the TL team's toes in the least, just how I'd move it around in my head for English parsing and taking some liberties):

"I'll live for hundreds of years after you die...so that I won't be lonely, swear to me hundreds and thousands of years-worth of love."

To add, there's probably a more elegant way of stating the above that I just couldn't think up in time for this post, and the TL team's specific wording is also still correct as-is.

 

[Velev]

foible of Japanese sentence structure it doesn't format directly as otherwise would be preferred.

Yeah, this is more or less how it happened. Normally I'm able to figure out some way of wording it better, but I just couldn't think of a good way to do it for this time.

promise me hundreds and thousands of years-worth of love.

This actually sounds way better than anything I had, I might come back later and change it to something like this.

 

[Oured]

She's got a hairclip that says "E" for "Elf".

 

[Takuma_Aki]

This actually made me think of a question. Would it be selfish of a human to fall in love and be with an elf? Because for the human, they can love and be with the elf for their entire life. The elf however, assuming they also fall in love with the human, would have to watch the one they love grow old and die and then continue to live on without them for however long they live. It would be easy for the human because they’d never really have to experience that pain assuming the elf doesn’t get killed or die some other way.

Kinda feel like this was explored between Aragon and Arwen? Not that I read the original novel, but I think it was alluded to in the movie, so I'd assume it must have been explored in the novel.

 

[loonacrunch]

Does being a jirai kei always comes with massive eyebags?

 

[branx9]

Kinda feel like this was explored between Aragon and Arwen? Not that I read the original novel, but I think it was alluded to in the movie, so I'd assume it must have been explored in the novel.

"Sort of." Arwen is thousands of years old and doesn't really age, but she loses her will to live and dies shortly after Aragorn. I think the movie was alluding to the fact that she COULD be in mourning forever (it's like a dream sequence if I recall correctly), but what happens is that she doesn't. If she had the will to live, I believe she could have stayed pretty much immortal. I might not be accounting for some consequences related to the elves leaving Middle Earth, though.

edit a little googling suggests that yeah, by not leaving Middle Earth with the elves, she opted out of immortality. But still she didn't did of old age and didn't mourn for eternity.

 

[Doopington]

Does being a jirai kei always comes with massive eyebags?

Kind of. It's part of the overall menhera style.
It's supposed to make the girl look like she cries a lot and has puffy eyes (implied to at least partially be related to the "landmine" mental health issues) and aesthetically evoke a "must protecc" moe vibe.

 

[eviljackspicer]

I think this one might actually go with the "have him have a son with another woman and then marry the son" plan...

That's one way to keep the bloodline alive LMAO

 

[lesseffective]

"There you are, Kuga."

 

[cjellis1227]

Kinda feel like this was explored between Aragon and Arwen? Not that I read the original novel, but I think it was alluded to in the movie, so I'd assume it must have been explored in the novel.

Yes and no. In the books she ended up becoming mortal and died of a broken heart right after Aragorn died. They ended up being married for 122 years before they died. In the movie it alludes to her having to live after his death, but that was only a vision of what could’ve happened. Luckily (or unluckily, depends on if you consider it a good or a bad thing) this didn’t happen and she basically died with him.

 

[Hitspark]

"Give me hundreds and thousands of years of your love"

"How about millions and trillions?"

And that, my daughter, is why Mommy keeps this magical choker around Daddy's neck so he can't leave the house.

 

[wallsg]

Yes and no. In the books she ended up becoming mortal and died of a broken heart right after Aragorn died. They ended up being married for 122 years before they died. In the movie it alludes to her having to live after his death, but that was only a vision of what could’ve happened. Luckily (or unluckily, depends on if you consider it a good or a bad thing) this didn’t happen and she basically died with him.

 

[thatguy257]

unzips dick